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= Read-Copy Update (RCU) = * [:Documentation/Subsystems/ReadCopyUpdate:RCU] Links to RCU documentation |
Scheduler
A short and incomplete [:Documents/SchedulingInUNIXAndLinux:introduction] to scheduling in UNIX and Linux, and how tasks interact with the kernel.
Memory management
A Memory Management [:Documents/MemoryManagement:talk] by Rik van Riel
KernelMemoryAllocation: A brief overview of the different memory management mechanisms used in the kernel.
[:Documents/CopyUser:Copy from/to user-space implementation.] A description of the x86 copy_from/to_user() core code.
Device driver infrastructure
[:Documents/InitcallMechanism:Understanding The Linux Kernel Initcall Mechanism]: How module_init() and friends work.
- Device ["Drivers"]
Networking
[:Documents/LinuxIPNetworking:Linux IP Networking] A description of Linux 2.2's IP stack, with diagrams.
[:Documents/Netfilter:Netfilter talk]
- ["Networking"] everything network related
Filesystems
[:Documents/SeqFileHowTo:A seq_file HOWTO] Describes the seq_file API, used for outputting information via /proc.
[:WhyReiser4IsNotIn:Why] Reiser4 is not in the Linux Kernel.
Power Management
Hardware architecture
KernelPorts porting the kernel to other architectures
Read-Copy Update (RCU)
[:Documentation/Subsystems/ReadCopyUpdate:RCU] Links to RCU documentation